SCOOP: Trump Administration prepares multiple military options for Iran, including airstrikes and setting up ground invasion
When President Trump’s top national security advisers met for a classified meeting at the Pentagon last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan laid out several U.S. military options for Iran, separated into two distinct categories: retaliatory and offensive.
American special operations forces traditionally play a heavy role both during and after battlespace preparation, defense officials added but said their use would depend on the Iranian scenario and the varying degrees outlined in the escalation of force matrix. One Pentagon source said the meeting does not equate to the United States beginning the early stages of war but instead is a show of force against Iran and part of a strategy aimed at diplomatic resolution."It’s just flexing muscles," the official said.
Trump's strategy was previously limited to a maximum pressure campaign of economic and diplomatic isolation, but recent events such as Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz and a series of mysterious"sabotage" attacks against oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman less than 100 miles away have led to a new spike in tensions.
Adding to the conflict’s controversy was the fact that the pretext for invading Iraq went unproven, and Bolton—a veteran Washington hawk—played a central role in propagating this narrative at the time. Allegations that Hussein was producing weapons of mass destruction and supported militant groups such as Al-Qaeda were rooted in bad intelligence spun to pave a warpath and Tehran has warned the same was happening today.
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